Report Updates, analysis and colour from the third day of the fourth Test Welcome to our live report of the third day of the Australia-India Test from Brisbane. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here 11.17am: Agarwal the middle-order batsman, and Australia’s bowling plans ESPNcricinfo Ltd The
News du Preez, though, is hoping that it will spur the younger players to “step up, show their skills” Mignon du Preez, the senior South Africa Women batter, believes the absence of premier allrounders Dane van Niekerk and Chloe Tryon, due to injuries, for the upcoming home series against Pakistan will pose a “challenge” for
News England allrounder unlikely to be match-ready for second Test, but set to resume training Moeen Ali has been released from quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19 on arrival in Sri Lanka, and has returned to the England team bubble in Galle after serving an extended isolation period. Moeen, 33, tested negative for the virus
There wasn’t exactly a whole lot of astonishment in Alamgir Kabir‘s voice when he heard about Shoriful Islam‘s call-up to the Bangladesh ODI side. Islam had become a talked-about name in recent months after his impressive performances in the two recent domestic tournaments earned him a call-up to the 24-member preliminary squad last week. He
News BBL form could count for a lot when Australia next select a squad if the Test tour to South Africa also goes ahead Australia’s T20I captain Aaron Finch has said the list of possible players for the upcoming T20 tour of New Zealand is as long as ever as the national selectors face the
Welcome to our live report of the second day of the Australia-India Test from Brisbane. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here 4.50pm: Play abandoned for the day The umpires have conducted their second inspection, and found the outfield still too wet for play to resume. Play
Some players wear expectations of greatness lightly. Eight years and 37 Tests into his career, it is fair to say that Lahiru Thirimanne has not. In his early years, Thirimanne appeared as he still appears now – mature, measured, responsible, astute, always with that determined look upon his face. Here was a serious young player.
News Shoriful Islam and Hasan Mahmud are the new faces in the 18-man party for the three games Shakib Al Hasan is back in the Bangladesh side, which includes newcomers Shoriful Islam and Hasan Mahmud, as well as Mahedi Hasan, for the three-ODI series at home against West Indies starting next week in Dhaka. IN:
Josh Philippe plays a falling scoop © Getty Images Sydney Sixers 3 for 164 (Philippe 84, Behrendorff 1-19) beat Perth Scorchers 7 for 163 (Livingstone 67, Christian 2-22, Brathwaite 2-12) by seven wickets Josh Philippe may well have secured a trip to New Zealand with Australia’s T20 side after producing yet another dazzling display with
Rohit Sharma attracted criticism from pundits and fans alike for the shot he played to be out caught at long-on in the Brisbane Test, but said he didn’t regret it one bit as it was part of the role he was playing for the team. He said it was important in this slow-scoring series for
Tea Sri Lanka 135 and 90 for 0 (Perera 55*, Thirimanne 34*) trail England 421 (Root 228, Lawrence 73) by 196 runs Sri Lanka’s batsmen have made an admirable start to their attempt to save the first Test in Galle. Starting their second innings with a deficit of 286, their openers batted throughout the afternoon
The Melbourne Renegades snapped a seven-game losing streak against the Adelaide Strikers thanks to 36-year-old Mohammad Nabi and 18-year-old Jake Fraser-McGurk’s match-winning unbroken partnership
Sachin Tendulkar posted a note on Twitter thanking the frontline workers on Saturday.© Instagram Sachin Tendulkar, former India batting great, took to Twitter on Saturday to wish the whole country very best as India kicked off the largest vaccine drive in fight against the coronavirus. Sharing a note on Twitter, Tendulkar compared the nation’s fight
News This will be South Africa’s first assignment since their semi-final appearance at the T20 World Cup in Australia in March last year Sune Luus will lead an 18-member South Africa Women’s squad in the absence of the injured Dane van Niekerk for the ODIs and T20Is against Pakistan Women. This will be South Africa’s
News The trio took 31 wickets between them in the recent Tests against Pakistan New Zealand’s pace trio of Tim Southee, Trent Boult and Kyle Jamieson will all make a return to the Super Smash when Auckland take on Northern Districts at Eden Park Outer Oval on Sunday. Both teams currently occupy the bottom two
In the week of his 100th Test match and perhaps his 400th wicket, Nathan Lyon finds himself on familiar ground: the unsteady kind. Lyon is currently mired in one of the worst series of his career, as India take him for near enough to 60 runs per wicket with one Test to play. He is
Welcome to our live report of the second day of the Australia-India Test from Brisbane. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here 11.10am: 3 for 4 Australia are collapsing here. Shardul Thakur has been getting the ball to swing away consistently when he’s bowled outside off, but
News A 21-member squad, with nine fast bowling options, is set to depart tonight Left arm-seamer Marco Jansen will replace Ottniel Baartman in South Africa’s Test squad which leaves for Pakistan tonight. Baartman has been ruled out of the touring party for a medical reason unrelated to Covid-19, while the entire 21-player party have returned
Lou Vincent, the former New Zealand opener, is considering an approach to the ECB to plea for “leniency”, more than six years after being found guilty on 11 counts of match-fixing. Speaking for only the second time since admitting, in an open letter in 2014, that he was a “cheat”, Vincent reiterated to Giving the
News Melbourne Stars will finally get a chance to play at home as they try to ignite their BBL campaign Living in the present and not looking too far ahead is the key to navigating the never-ending hubs professional cricketers are facing during the Covid pandemic, according to Melbourne Stars pair Marcus Stoinis and Adam
News India are playing the Brisbane Test with their most inexperienced bowling attack since 1933 India’s desperate luck with injuries continued, as Navdeep Saini walked off with a groin strain after bowling just 7.5 overs on the first day of the Gabba Test. He was taken for scans in the afternoon. With four Test caps
News England “are the most compliant team in world cricket”, claims team spokesperson England’s management have insisted they are “not concerned” despite two members of staff at their hotel in Galle testing positive for Covid-19. The England camp were notified on Friday morning that two staff members, both of whom work in the kitchen of
News CWI says the legspinner has had no contact with the other squad members West Indies legspinner Hayden Walsh has been found Covid-19 positive after being tested twice in the last two days in Dhaka. As a result, he has been ruled out of the ODI series against Bangladesh and the tourists haven’t named a
News Haris Rauf wins call-up, Babar Azam fit to take over captaincy Shan Masood, Haris Sohail and Mohammad Abbas have all been dropped for Pakistan’s two-match Test series against South Africa in a dramatically overhauled squad. The home series, which kicks off in Karachi on January 26, also sees several newcomers in the 20-man squad,
Welcome to our live report of the first day of the Australia-India Test from Brisbane. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here *Most recent entry will appear at the top, please refresh your page for the latest updates. All times are local. 5.30pm local/1pm IST: Stumps Australia
News The founders of Laver Cup and Betfair, and the CEO of British Telecom among fresh funders The creator of the Laver Cup in tennis, the CEO of British Telecom, the founder of Betfair are among the global entrepreneurs who have invested in the Rajasthan Royals in a fresh funding drive. The investors injected the
Report Dan Lawrence makes accomplished debut as tourists build lead Joe Root‘s highest Test score since November 2019 has helped England into a dominant position at lunch on the second day of the first Test in Galle. Root went through 2020 without a century – the first time in his Test career he has gone
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An under-strength India fought back in the final session to leave the fourth Test against Australia evenly poised after the opening day at the Gabba in Brisbane on Friday. Australia finished the first day on 274 for five, with Cameron Green on 28 and Tim Paine alongside him on 38 to put the home side
News The former West Indies captain had also served as the head coach of the senior side at the 2019 ODI World Cup Floyd Reifer, the former West Indies captain, has been appointed as the head coach of the Under-19 team and will lead the “development of the squad” as they prepare for next year’s